Some conditions cause the finger or toe joint tissue to thicken, making movement difficult. This may affect how the joint bends and may feel like it is locking up. A person may also experience joint ...

Hand cramps can occur for many reasons and cause significant discomfort in some people. They are typically the result of muscle spasms or injury. Often, hand cramps are caused by muscle spasms, which ...

Crampy hands can make it hard to make a fist or bring your fingers together. This usually isn’t dangerous, but other symptoms may indicate an underlying condition that requires treatment. Hand cramps ...

Writer’s cramp is a specific type of focal dystonia that affects your fingers, hand, or forearm. Focal dystonia of the hands is a neurologic movement disorder. The brain sends incorrect information to ...

Some people are woken from deep sleep by cramps in the feet or hands or by tingling pain in the fingers and toes. Sometime last week, one gentleman told me he had had soreness in the palm of one hand ...

You might get hand cramps after writing, typing, or holding your phone for long periods of time. Dehydration, diabetes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and focal dystonia can also cause hand cramps. If you ...

WHEN one of my friends wanted to sign a cheque recently, and the two fingers to hold the pen couldn’t do the job, and a doctor suggested he may have had a partial stroke, he had to embark on serious ...